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It gets finally around zero and more acceptable.
I went to the read square by metro.
If you can read Cyrillic letters going by metro is fairly easy.
Their are 10 lines and each line has a color and a number.
You can not rely on the colors as similar colors are written in the same color.
Like ired, brown and Orange, light brown/gray line is written in brown.
Line 5 (brown) is the circle line.
Metro works with a magnet card you get 10 for 105 RUR and 2 trip cards for 26 RUR.
Once inside you can change trains as often as you like/need.
On knot-points where several lines cross each of the stations has a different name.
E.g where line 2, 7 and 9 cross each the station of line 7 is called Pushkinskaja,
of line 2 Tverskaja and of line 9 Chehovskaja.
After you went down with the escalator there is a sign with stations showing the names
of destinations of the metro on the left and right side.
You pick the station you want to go to and to the perron it points to.
To verify you look at the opposode side of the rails where the station name is written.
During the ride stations are anounced.
At the destination you look for which means exit to the city.
If you want tho change lines on transfer station you look for which mean
"transfer" and there is the number of the line written and the color if you are lucky.
Now you have a 5 minutes walk and choose your destination from the board and
go left and right.
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24-03-2005
I was told about a funny commercial: It was about Hans Schmal from München,
a German who visited Moscow. He was very afraid because everything was so unfamiliar.
He wanted to make photos form train station but all people stept into his picture
he and when he needed a taxi an ambulance stopped.
He was very scarred. In Moscow, She explained, any can stop and serve as a taxi.
He was very afraid until and a bar he got a BOCHKA? beer
which tasted delicious even better then all the German beers.
The commercial ends saying Hans saying the German words
"Das ist fantastisch!" (that is fantastic) which is now a common saying.
In fact I have seen this in the newspaper.
So much to Hans Schmal from Munich.
Mosow is the city of money - every body has a job in the finance business, is
bookkeeper, auditor, finance manager ... You find exchange shops anywhere and an
incredible number of casinos, banks and business centers.
Near Pushkinskaja square we went in the restaurant L... near the Dumma the
Moscow government. It is a nice Russian restaurant. I had beef Stroganov and
mashed potatoes.
25-03-2005
Today the weather turns bad again. With temperatures just above zero we got allot of
snow and snow-rain. The streets turn into a brown and gray mess and it is
not much pleasure to walk.
Nevertheless, after the lessons, the class went down the center to a Restaurant called
Mu-Mu. The class that is me and Anke. It is a sort buffet but with no self service - the waitress put the stuff on you plate. I got some Bosch - a Russian soup, .....
for 367 RUR ( 10 EUR) I got a delicious and complete meal.
We went down the famous old ARBAT (АРБАТ). It is a famous old shopping street full of
tourist shops.
26-03-2005
I went to the space center Kosmonautiki at the Metro station VNDH (ВНДХ)
The space center has only a view examples and was rather small.
The space center belongs to many pavilions which used to be the
industrial exhibition of Soviet industries.
There is a old Topolev jet aircraft and a original ... rocket rather decayed.
We looked for another space pavilion. The pavilions still show the names but
inside are only kiosks for sale. The electronics pavilion shows a map of Soviet
electronic industries but done a cat exhibition and some kiosks,
a picture of the change in the Russia.
and the decay of Soviet Union.
29-03-2005
Cathedral of Christ the Savior is Russias biggest cathedral.
It was demolished by the Bolsheviks in 1931 to clear space for their own intended main monument, the giant Palace of the Soviets.
The Palace of Soviets was planned to be the largest building in the world.
Its height was to reach 415 metres - higher than the tallest buildings of the time, the Eiffel Tower and the Empire State Building.
The construction of the Palace of Soviets was designate a priority project in 1934,
and by 1939 the foundations of the upper part were completed.
Construction was suspended in 1941 because of the war and never resumed
, and the foundation later was filled with one of the world's largest open-air swimming pools (1960-1993).
To symbolize beginning of a new , post-Soviet era, in the mid-1990s the Cathedral has been resurrected again in instead of the pool.
walking from thje Red Sqare over the ?? brige and turnming to the right I reached
the small park which is very popular for weddings on weekends.
Remarlable ir the scuplures by
Mihail Chemiakin's build in 2001 and called: Children - Victims of the Sins of Adults
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